Artist typeface transcription (Part 3) - Process & Production

Below are my final designs for my 3 typefaces, from drawing up ideas, to filtering them down to more neater and accurate graphic styles, to the final thing done on Adobe Illustrator on the computer. Once I finished making these typefaces, John (one of my tutors) told me to choose my best typeface out of all the 3 and I chose the 3rd typeface below. He then told me to write the sentence 'THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE FAT LAZY MOOON' to determine whether the typeface actually looked well put together in a sentence rather than on its own as individual letters.

After Effects 'Title' workshop

This workshop on After Effects was to help us on how to use key points more effectively and on how to create a title with animation. First I tried to find a word/words to use as a title and so I used the word 'MONEY'. However to give my title a bit more substance and meaning to it, I joined the word SOS to it but changed the S's to dollar signs to represent currency. I also did this with the E in MONEY by changing it to a pound sign. The title says $O$/MON£Y which is actually a shorter phrase for 'save our souls money'. I was trying to give out the message that money is large part of our life. After choosing the font and creating the title, we had to find a texture to use in conjunction with the title, and so I used a texture of dollar notes to relate to the title.

After Effects 'Title' workshop from Junaid Arshad on Vimeo.

Artist typeface transcription (Part 2) - Process & Production

After making my 1st draft designs for a typeface, I was told to choose 3 of the designs to go forward with. Seeing as I only drew up 3 1st draft designs in the first place and I only really liked 1 of these, I am choosing to draw up the whole alphabet for the one I liked more neatly on graph paper, and then draw the other 2 on computer while also transferring the 1st design on computer as well, giving me 3 altogether. Below is my 1st typeface design drawn up on graph paper.

Workshop Week - Logo Design

In the first day for our 2nd workshop week at Uni I learned the process of designing logos for a client.  First, I had the option to choose out of 3 clients/briefs which were; a juice/coffee shop aimed at young children aged between 7-14; a silent hotel where everything ran like a normal hotel except for nobody talking and everything being absolutely silent (to create a getaway feel from the busy city sounds); a virtual pub where people could put on some type of goggles or an interface where they were immersed in a socialised pub right in the comfort of their own home. I chose the juice/coffee shop brief. I first generated several names and then chose 4 names out of these to progress forward with. Once I did a few logo designs for these 4 names, I chose one to progress forward with and got halfway to create several logo design drafts for it.

Kinetic Typography after effects workshop - Physical Studio

In this workshop with Sara we we taught the process of how to make simple kinetic typography in Adobe After Effects. First we had to choose a quote to make into kinetic typography. Once this was done we made a layout page in Illustrator to give an idea of the font & colours which were going to be used.

After this we started to lay the page out in After Effects like we did in Illustrator (my layout changed a bit when we did this) and then we added an audio track to make the kinetic typography fall in time to. Below is my end result.

My first attempt at Kinetic Typography from Junaid Arshad on Vimeo.

Artist typeface transcription (Part 1) - Process & Production

In this process & production session with John I was looking at typography. At the start of the session, John showed the group some examples of typography from previous students and told us how they were made with a few of them - he showed a picture of something (say a building) and pointed out how there was shape in it which looked a letter of the alphabet.

After looking at several images which John gave us as help for our development, we had develop our own typography from looking at the images and picking letters out. Below is the result of what I did.